Cant-hook



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T. W. CASSIDY.

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No. 326,951. Patented Sept. 29,.1885.

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THOMAS VILLIAM CASSIDY, OF BANGOR, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TOHIMSELF, OLINTON R. JONES, AND VALTER B. SAVYER, OF

PORTLAND, MAINE.

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SPECIFICA'I'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,951,datedeptember 29, 1885.

Application filed June 22, 1885.

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Be it known that I, THOMAS WILLIAM OAssIDY, of Bangor, in the county ofPenobscot, of the State of Maine, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Oant-Hooks; and I do hereby declare the same to bedescribed in the following specification, and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 alongitudinal section, and Fig. 3 an edge view, of a cant-book containingmy invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim, hereinafterpresented. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectlon, and Fig. 5 an edge view, ofa point, handle, and hooksocket piece. Fig. 6 is a perspeetive View ofthe guard-spring E, to be hereinafter described.

In such drawings, A denotes the tubular socket-piece for supporting thehandle B, the point O, and the hook D, such hook being hinged or pivotedto the socket-piece by being extended between two ears, a a, projectingfrom the socket-piece, and held to them by a screw-bolt, b, and nut c,the said bolt going through the ears and the nut being screwed on thebolt. The socket-piece is tapering, and has within it one or morespiral,

ribs, d, projecting from its inner surface and arranged lengthwisethereof, so that on the handle B being driven in the socket-piece suchrib shall enter the handle and cause it to turn laterally, and servethereby to hold or aid in firmly holding it within the socketpiece orfrom being withdrawn therefrom without at the same time revolving thehandle. The point O projects from the lower end of the socket-piece, theshank e of the point being driven into the handle or the part thereofwithin the socket-piece. Furthermore, from the ears a a the top of thesocket-piece is not in a plane at right angles to the aXis of thesocket-piece, but extends upward in a plane oblique thereto, as shown atf, such serving to afford an additional bearing or support for thehandle while the eant-hook may be in use for turuing over a log or pieceof timber. The extensionf is to prevent the handle from being broken offat (No model.)

the top of the socket-piece when the canthook may be in use, as it isliable to be when the top of the socket-piece is square to the aXis ofsuch socket-piece.

Between the two ears a a, which at their lower parts turn inward towardeach other, as shown at q g, there is a vibratory guard, E, formed andprovided with a lip, h, exteuding down from it in nianner as representedin Figs. 2 and 6. The lip extends into anarrow space, i, between theparts g g of the two ears. On the hook being thrown upward toward thehandle the part of the viloratory guard that intervenes between the hookand the handle will prevent the hook from being jammed into the handle.The said guard E is arranged between the handle B and the upper end ofthe hook D, and eXtends around such upper end and underneath the part ofsuch book-that is, between the lips. It also projects above such end inmanner as represented. 7o

In turning the hook upward to its highest position the guard E will betipped by it and borne against the handle., By having the guard tovibrate between the ears a person having hold of the handle by bothhands, with the point O in contact with the log or piece of timber, can,with his foot pressed against the upper part of the vibrator-guard, tipit so as to force upward the point of the hook D, in order to properlyadjust it to the So part of the log into which it may be desirable tohave it enter, the guard under such circumstances Operating as a leverto raise the hook.

It will be seen that the top of the socketpiece inclines upward from theears to the opposite side of the handle in order to prevent the handle,when forced forward, from being broken at the top of the socket-piece,as it is liable to be when the top of the socket-piece is square to theaxis of such socket-piece or oo is inelined in the opposite direction.

As most cant-hooks are used in Winter as ice-picks by lumbermen, thehook is liable to be thrown back against the handle with forcesuffioient to seriously indent and wear it. The vibratory guard, appliedas described, is to prevent such indenting and wearing of the handle, asalso the hook from jamming [o ears, and extended both above and underand around the rear part of the hook D, and pro vided with the gnidingand steadying lip h, projeeting from it (the said guard) between thetm'nedin parts of the lips, all being substantially as set forth.

THOMAS WILLIAM CASSIDY.

Vitnesses:

I-I. W. PLUMMER, F. H. O. REYNOLDS.

